The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-09
Sam JOnes's Savings.

The Baltimore American gives the l.
lowing extracts from three sermons
preached by Rev. Sam Jones, the
Southern Revivalist, in that city:
You can't make friends with God I'M
til you're sorry enough of your sins to
quit them.
If man repents he don't have to try
to believe; it comes of itself.
God can't give you faith; you've got
to do that Yourself God gives you
sight, but seeing is your job. God gives
you taste, but do you ever ask God to
taste ham and eggs.
You may call this silly talk, but I'm
talking to a silly crowd.
Foolishness is what you rub on foolish
people. w
when you have converted the hypocrltes
come and talk religion to me. These
hvpocrites are in my way" SAID
they wouldn't be in your way if
they hadn't got ahead Of you. Amt you
ashamed to let hypocrites get ahead of
you2"
I've got more confidence in bread pills
administered by a praying doctor than
the finest science given by an agnostic.
understand why old Bob Ingersoll is
an intidel it pays him $500 a night to
| deny God, while he would not get so
night lecturing that there is a God.
! I wouldn't give ten cents a dozen for
! Christians who won't pray in public.
There are a thousand differences be-
| tween us, but we are astonishingly alike.
When an engineer gets down from his
cab to oil his machinery | notice that he
pours oil out of the same can upon all
the parts, great and small alike. And so
/ the Great Engineer of the universe pOurs
the oil of grace from the great heavenly
storehouse upon the great and small
alike, and makes it as easy for one per
son as another to do right. If there IS
any one here who is not what God in
tended you to be it's because you won't
give him a chance.
| am getting sick and tired of this cant :
otis so hard for me to do right" You re
good for nothing, that's what's the mat
ter with you.
know it is a heap easier to be gen
tleman than vagabond I've tried both.
Blessed be they who give, and blessed
be those who do not give, for if they are
blessed they will give.
The last step, the last thought on
earth, means goodbye to the last oppor-
tunity.
God speed the day when the church
will kick out every man within its Dor
ders who deals in futures. The church
and the preacher who depends upon such
sort of people belongs to the devil from
hat to heels
Brother, if YOU are not afraid of God
you will have good reason to fear every
corner of the fence.
God does not care for present events
He looks out for final results
I'll make my bones ache dancing the
pigeon wing if it will help me to heaven.
The curse of all the churches in this
country is that they have got thousands
of members who have never been con
vlcted of sin, much less converted to
| God
Whenever anything is wrong quit it,
and quit it short off A good many want
to taper off in sin. They taper off gen
orally to the big end.
The sooner YOU die, the sooner you'll
get to heaven if you've been a good man.
No man is going to growl on getting into
heaven ahead OF time.
Don't consider yourself safe till you
get there.
Heaven is Just on the other side OF
| where Il fellow has done his level best.
r The man who thinks he safe, and lies
back on his oars loses heaven right there.
If l ever fall III get up and run right
OF; and if | can't run I'll do some tall
crawling
You take Baptist water, Methodist fire
and PRESBYTERIAN "hold on to what
you've got, and you've got a sight.